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VAR-2147 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

John 5:44 — “The Honour That Cometh from God Only”: Does “God” Belong?

The received and principal critical texts both read “the only God”; any omission belongs to the secondary apparatus, not their main-text disagreement.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2148 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

John 6:23 — “After That the Lord Had Given Thanks”: Is the Title Authentic?

“The Lord” is present in the received text and the leading critical editions, making this another important agreement control.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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VAR-2149 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 6:47 — “He That Believeth on Me”: Do the Final Words Belong?

The received text identifies Christ as the object of faith; the critical sentence says only, “he that believeth hath everlasting life.”

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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VAR-2150 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 6:39, 51 — Losing Nothing and Giving His Flesh: Two Bread-of-Life Variants

Two omissions shorten the Father’s will and Christ’s gift: “Father” in verse 39 and “which I will give” in verse 51.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2145 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

John 5:36 — “Greater Witness” or “Greater Works”? The Evidence Christ Cites

The principal Greek texts agree that Christ has a testimony greater than John’s and that the Father-given works bear that testimony.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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VAR-2144 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 5:17 — “But Jesus Answered Them”: Does the Name Belong?

Scrivener and NA28 explicitly name Jesus; the SBLGNT follows the shorter Westcott–Hort form, “but he answered them.”

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2143 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 5:3–4 — The Angel Who Troubled the Water: Is the Passage Authentic?

The received account explains the waiting sick and the moving water; the critical text omits the end of verse 3 and all of verse 4.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2146 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

John 5:39 — “Search the Scriptures” or “Ye Search the Scriptures”?

The same Greek verb can be read as an imperative, “Search,” or an indicative, “Ye search”; manuscripts do not supply the deciding punctuation.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2140 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 3:15 — “Should Not Perish, but Have Eternal Life”: Does the Full Clause Belong?

The received text includes “should not perish, but,” while the critical form moves directly from believing to having eternal life and changes the preposition.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2139 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 3:13 — “The Son of Man Which Is in Heaven”: Is the Heavenly Witness Authentic?

The received text identifies the incarnate Son of man as presently in heaven; the principal critical form ends before that clause.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2141 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 4:42 — “This Is Indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the World”

The Samaritan confession names Jesus “the Christ, the Saviour of the world” in the received text; the critical form keeps “Saviour” but omits “the Christ.”

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2142 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 5:2 — Bethesda, Bethzatha, or Bethsaida? The Name of the Pool

The pool’s name circulated in several spellings; Scrivener and the SBLGNT read Bethesda, while NA28 adopts Bethzatha.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2137 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 2:3–4 — When the Wine Failed: Word Order, Mary’s Request, and Jesus’ Reply

The Cana exchange is textually stable in substance; the principal difference is a connective before Jesus’ reply, not a rival request from Mary.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2136 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 1:42 — Simon Son of Jona or Simon Son of John?

Jesus names Simon as the son of Jona in the received text and as the son of John in the principal critical editions.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2135 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

John 1:34 — The Son of God or the Chosen One of God? John’s Testimony

The received text and NA28 read “the Son of God,” while the SBLGNT editor adopts the ancient “Chosen One of God.”

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2138 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

John 3:5 — The Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven?

Both Scrivener’s received text and the current principal critical editions read “the kingdom of God”; “kingdom of heaven” is a secondary minority form.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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VAR-2130 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Luke 24:51–53 — Ascension, Worship, Blessing, and “Amen”: The Gospel’s Received Conclusion

The received conclusion includes the ascension, the disciples’ worship, both praising and blessing God, and “Amen.” Current critical editions retain the ascension and worship once questioned by Westcott and Hort, but omit “praising” and the final “Amen.”

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2131 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 1:3–4 — “Without Him Was Not Anything Made That Was Made”: Where Should the Sentence Break?

The Greek words are substantially undisputed; the question is whether “what came into being” closes verse 3 or begins a sentence that runs into verse 4.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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VAR-2133 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 1:18 — “The Only Begotten Son” or “the Only Begotten God”?

John 1:18 contains a major christological variation between the church’s received “only begotten Son” and the critical “only begotten God.”

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2134 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 1:28 — Bethabara or Bethany beyond Jordan? Locating John’s Baptism

The place of John’s baptism is Bethabara in the received text and Bethany in most critical editions, an ancient geographical dispute already discussed by Origen.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2132 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

John 1:13 — “Which Were Born” or “Who Was Born”? Regeneration and an Ancient Christological Reading

The received and principal critical texts both use a plural verb referring to believers, while an ancient singular form turns the sentence toward Christ’s birth.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2129 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Luke 24:42 — “A Piece of a Broiled Fish, and of an Honeycomb”

The received text gives Jesus broiled fish and a piece of honeycomb. The critical text retains the fish but omits the honeycomb.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2128 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Luke 24:36, 40 — “Peace Be unto You” and the Displayed Hands and Feet

The received text includes Jesus’ peace greeting and the act of displaying his hands and feet. These were questioned as Western non-interpolations but are retained by the principal current critical editions.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-2127 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

Luke 24:6, 12 — “He Is Risen” and Peter at the Empty Tomb

The received text contains both “but is risen” and Peter’s run to the tomb. Westcott and Hort treated these among the Western non-interpolations, while current critical editions generally retain the words, sometimes with brackets or apparatus caution.

Verification
Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record